Maternal and infant mortality rates in African countries can be reduced through provision of reliable health information to pregnant women. This article reports on an exploratory study that investigated the information ...

Idea generation and inspiration are important in creative tasks. This article reports on descriptive quantitative results from an exploratory study conducted in 2016 on the creative tasks and the personal information ...

Modern education systems tend to focus on the use of external pressures to motivate students to learn. Intrinsic motivation - motivation to do something because it is enjoyable in and of itself – by contrast, is more ...

PURPOSE : The paper explores library cooperation in Zimbabwe and gathers views from librarians on the need for a library consortium model to underpin national development. This study aims to investigate the development of ...

Social network analysis (SNA) is being increasingly deployed as an instrument to plot knowledge and
expertise as well as to confirm the character of connections in informal networks within organisations.
This study ...

Failures in competitive intelligence are widely reported but are seldom studied through an information behaviour lens or specifically attributed to information activities and factors influencing information behaviour. This ...

INTRODUCTION : Although much has been reported on cancer information needs, the literature is
scant on cancer pain information-related needs. This might be prohibiting understanding of
complex experiences of pain and ...

INTRODUCTION : Palliative care embraces the plight of patients and caregivers. Cognitive and
emotional empathy, empathetic care and the information environment at a time of dying
influence caregivers’ experiences of ...

The reading and buying market for Afrikaans fiction is limited due to historical and economical reasons. It can thus be argued that in order to expand the market for South African Afrikaans trade publishers and authors' ...

This study investigates how institutional repositories are making hidden or lost cultural digital heritage
accessible in academic libraries in selected countries within Africa. The design of the study is a
descriptive ...

Intelligence is not a new concept and dates back to over 5 000 years. The concept of
competitive intelligence is however still an evolving field and its modern-day business
interpretation has been changed and refined. ...

This article introduces a prototype of a writing (and learning) assistant for verbal relative clauses of the African language Sepedi, accessible from within a dictionary or from a word processor. It is an example of how a ...

The Afrikaanse idiome-woordeboek is a prototype e-dictionary of Afrikaans fixed expres-sions developed with the intention to test the functionalities of the e-dictionary. This dictionary is based on the function theory of ...

PURPOSE : To serve their clients in a time of post-truth discourse and fake news, librarians need to understand the post-truth phenomenon. The purpose of this paper is to examine it, what is being done in response to it, ...

This study aimed to determine what the best practice guidelines were for making academic reading material available to visually impaired students at the University of Pretoria (UP) easily and efficiently. A basic literature ...

In the past decade, the maker or Do-It-Yourself (DIY) movement has been booming worldwide as the latest re-imagination of creative spaces, especially for STEAM education (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) ...

PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to discuss the heuristic evaluations of five e-dictionaries according to the criteria developed by Ball and Bothma (2018). E-dictionaries are increasingly making use of modern information ...